I sat down with Daniel Debrocke of the Statcked Strength podcast. We talked about defining recovery, stimulus-recovery-repeat, breathing, shifting between sympathetic and parasympathetic, eye focus and recovery, optic flow, recovery modalities, workload, nutrition strategies, glycogen depletion, stretching, social isolation, having fun and improving quality of life, cold therapy,
Greetings from rainy, cold (well, it is 53 degrees now) which would be a heatwave if I was in Minnesota . . . overcast, and did I mention pelting rain? But there is wind! And you know what I do when there is wind? Go kiteboard, of course! Now, you may be rightfully thinking
I had the honor of joining Michelle Welcome on her podcast. I came on to talk about the disconnect of basic physiology and the things bodybuilders do that just don’t make sense. Michelle says, "It’s a fun listen with Dr. Mike’s quirky sense of humor. Give the show a thumbs
I had the honor of talking about several of my passions on the Sweet Science of Fighting podcast this week. Check it out! Timestamps 0:00 - Mike's background 7:00 - Reflexive performance reset (RPR): What does it do? 18:07 - Optimizing hormones: does sauna work? 25:42 - Testosterone
Tune in to hear my 2019 Granite Games Summit on Recovery: Aspects of Sleep and HRV. Learn more about: [5:57] Stimulus and response [8:27] Stress 101 [9:40] Stress response [12:10] HRV 101 [20:20] Sleep 101 [29:34] 5 action items [33:30] Q&A To learn more about how to use HRV to
Two of the most common nutrition questions I get are: 1) “Should I do a keto diet?” and 2) “Are ketones useful?” I think The Great Ketones can be useful. It just depends on what you’re doing. The fact that you can take a ketone supplement and get into ketosis (e.g., raise ketone levels
Here is an overlooked system to train for increased recovery ability and to be more robust. The first system was temperature and the second system is pH. Your body has to regulate both core temp and blood pH very tight. Small deviations = no bueno. Since your body is an amazing adaptive organism, you
Here is your place to submit your questions to Dr. Mike about anything - from metabolism to metal music to performance. He will pull from these questions and answer them in the Flex Diet Podcast or the Daily Fitness Insider Newsletter. Click here to send Dr. Mike your question.
Poke around the internet and it gets confusing in the land of supplements Here is a question I got the other day. “Hey doc, I heard that BCAAs are not useful at all for adding muscle. Is this true? Thanks." - Mark If you are old like me, you remember back to the stone
I want to discuss the rare times where prolonged distress may be useful. As discussed yesterday, I like a mainly eustress model for nutrition, training, and even recovery items like sauna, cold, fasting, etc. Stressors that are acute. Every so often, a prolonged, massive distress – if done correctly – can provide a huge
